Two American Presidents, Eisenhower and Kennedy, had sent men of high reputation to Saigon to manipulate the Ngo Dinhs in the interests of the United States, but the Ngo Dinhs had got their way.
He earned his man-of-the-people reputation as a tough labor negotiator, a maker of deals, not of speeches.
He flatters Alex Jones, the leading crackpot conspiracy theorist of the airwaves, as a man of "amazing" reputation.
Gregory VI: Considered a man of great reputation, Gregory VI had thought Benedict IX unworthy of the papacy, and essentially bribed him to resign.
A man of some reputation, he had been flown in to speak to the students in our graduate program about his own work and his thoughts on writing.
He is a large, jolly man of national reputation, who, purely for his own amusement, is an itinerant Santa Claus, appearing in a different city each Christmas season.
His writ declares: "At least until the libellous publication which forms the subject matter of this claim, Mr Bukovsky was widely regarded as a man of spotless reputation; moreover a high moral authority both in this country and internationally.
If Saracens were particularly keen to replace François Pienaar, their departing coach last season, with a man of similar reputation, there really were only a handful of people they could have turned to - and Buck Shelford was one.
Thus, the church remained under secular domination until 1917 and fell increasingly under the influence of Grigory Yefimovich Rasputin, a starets (holy man) of dubious reputation who became a favourite of the imperial couple because he was able to stanch the bleeding of their son Alexis, who suffered from hemophilia.
A terrible thing to say of a man of good reputation, no doubt, but how could a convicted child abuser living in exile to avoid a prison sentence be said to have a good reputation on matters sexual he could defend in court?
